9 thoughts on “Learning to write – Conjunctions”

About sixteen years ago, when I first started living in Madrid (I now live in Seattle) and immersed myself in learning Spanish, I also found myself returning to English grammar, and in essence, learning English, my first language, all over again. I will never forget the experience, and my writing won’t either.

Funny you should say that. I had a spell learning Spanish and still use a grammar book which has Spanish on one side, and English on the other. When we learn a foreign language we realise how little we know about the structure of our own.

I love this. I can write different languages but sadly I can’t speak them. I understand language as if it were a math test. The sounds have levels of emotions and effect. I am just good at understanding those things because I had to learn earlier in my life how to speak so others can understand me. I found it frustrating and horrible. Now I am a poet who can’t stop writing and talking. Hahaha! That’s to my mom who cared for me and taught me how to communicate. She passed away from cancer four years ago. I will never forget what she gave me, knowledge and understanding.

Oh and I have been known to over use words like the, and, also if I like a word I will use it more than once in my poetry but no more than that. I don’t like cluttering up my work so I try to not over use words like I use to.

oetry is something I don’t understand. It seems like there is a big community for it here on WordPress. With regards to the overuse of words I find it depends what mood I am in as a reader as to how recpetive i am to it